Humility In Europe?

President Obama is collecting praise for the humility expressed in his Strasbourg speech.

He confessed that the US had failed to show appropriate appreciation of Europe's role in the world and described the US as sometimes "arrogant" and "dismissive." Well it's always easy to express humility on behalf of somebody else.

Message: You Europeans condemn George Bush? Well I humbly condemn him too. That's not self-criticism. It's self-praise via the criticism of others. And that's the very opposite of humility.